Human Development

In the cartoon series Family Guy, Stewie attempts to teach correct English dialect to his British neighbor. This ________interest was in the sounds of language.

Semantic

Phonological

Syntactic

Pragmatic

The higher correlation of IQ for identical than fraternal twins is typically interpreted as evidence for the influence of:

Heredity in intellectual performance

Environment in intellectual performance

Both heredity and environment in intellectual performance

Neither heredity nor environment in intellectual performance

Hedonistic prosocial moral reasoning, emphasizing one's own needs or interest, is especially common among:

Preschoolers

Grade schoolers

Teenagers

Mature adults

Gender-role standards tend to be:

Weak in industrialized or nonindustrialized societies

Stronger in nonindustrialized societes

Stronger in industrialized societies

Strong in industrialized and nonindustrialzed societies

The incremental view of ability is like:

Quitting a job before its begun

Swapping an item for something else at the flea market

Inflating a balloon to expand its size

Hearing a train whistle get quieter while the train recedes into the distance

In the USA, parents train their young to:

Suppress some emotions and to express others

Suppress all emotions regardless of type

Express all emotions intensely, "letting it all hang out"

Imitate the emotions expressed by family pets

Nelson, age eight, is a bully. He fights to get others to pay over their allowances to him. This exemplifies:

Instrumental aggression

Hostile aggression

Inhibitory control

Negative reinforcement

Teenagers with the ________identity status are presently suffering through an identity crisis.

Identity-achieved

Identity diffusion

Moratorium

Foreclosed

"false self-behaviors" would be most anticipated in a teenager with which identity status?

Foreclosure

Moratorium

Identity diffused

Identity achieved

Behavior that is intended to harm others who avoid the harm, is called:

Rough-and-tumble play

Socially expressive reactivity

Physical defensiveness

Aggression

The currently used deviation IQ is determined by:

Comparing mental age to chronological age ie., IQ=MA/CA*100

Comparing the child's performance to other children of his//her own age

Comparing how the child's performance deviates from adult performance

Subtracting missed items from 100 and dividing by the child's chronological age

Toddler's applications of fast-mapping generates the linguistic errors called:

Under-extensions and overextensions

Morphological omissions

Pragmatics and syntaxes

Recasts and expansions

A toddler feels scared by a visitor's "monster" Halloween mask; but she then relaxes when she sees her Mom laughing at it. The toddler:

Suffers from learned helplessness

Experiences a form of goodness-of-fit

Had an experience of slow-to-calm-down

Does social referencing

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